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There's a huge difference between languages that are no longer fashionable, call them old-fashioned, and languages that never had wide following, if any, call t
by ehudla 11y ago
There's a huge difference between languages that are no longer fashionable, call them old-fashioned, and languages that never had wide following, if any, call them niche languages. Most of the languages you mention were never mainstream production languages, for good reasons.
- kwhitefoot 11y agoYou are surely joking. Do you really mean to say that Cobol is not a mainstream language? Are you claiming that banks and similar institutions are niches? If that is the case then pretty much all programming languages are niche languages.
- ehudla 11y agoI am claiming SNOBOL, Icon and Eiffel aren't, for example.